Fruit characters of Cucumis melo L.: ‘tacapa green black’, ‘melona’ and ‘meloni’ (original) (raw)

Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Agriculture

Melon has high demand, but most of the Indonesian farmers planted import seeds of melon which has expensive price. Hence, Indonesia should produce high-quality melon seeds. This research used three melon cultivars (Cucumis melo L.): ‘Tacapa Green Black (GB)’, ‘Melona’, and ‘Meloni’ which are the result of breeding in Genetic and Breeding Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University. The purpose of this study is to describe fruit morphological characters of these melon cultivars. ‘Tacapa GB’ is breeding result of Testcross ♀ ‘Act3 434’ X F1 ‘PI 371795’, ‘Melona’ is segregation from ‘Luna’ and ‘Meloni’ is breeding result of ♀ ‘SL-3’ X ♂ ‘PI 371795’. Seeds of ‘Tacapa GB’, ‘Melona’ and ‘Meloni’ was planted. While harvest, these melons were measured, observed, and documented to obtain the quantity and quality of fruit characters. Data were analyzed and compared each other. The results showed ‘Tacapa GB’ has weight average of 3.2 kg, brix of 7–9, fruit shape's is oval, fruit...